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Today in Labor History July 26, 1937: Photojournalist and antifascist Gerda Taro was killed while covering the Spanish Civil War. She was 26. Thousands attended her funeral. Taro was a German Jew, who had to flee Germany after being imprisoned for her anti-Nazi activism. While living in exile, in France, she met another Jewish exile and photojournalist, Endre Ernő Friedmann. Together they published their work under the pseudonym Robert Capa. Scholar Hanno Hardt described their work as such: "Taro and Capa helped invent the genre of modern war photography while fueling the vicarious experience of the spectator by offering an approximation of life in the conflict zone."
After Taro’s death, Friedmann would retain the name Robert Capa and go on to become recognized as one of the greatest photojournalists ever. In 1947, he cofounded the Magnum photojournalism cooperative, which included other great photographers, like Maria Eisner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and William and Rita Vandivert.
Madrid and Paris both named streets for Taro, Calle Gerda Taro and Rue Gerda Taro, respectively.
Helena Janeczek portrayed Taro in her historical novel, The Girl With the Leica (1917).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #nazis #antifascism #jewish #antisemitism #hitler #franco #gerdataro #robertcapa #journalism #photography #photojournalism #spain #civilwar #fiction #historicalfiction #novel #books #author #writer @bookstadon
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Woman training for a Republican militia is a famous photograph by German photographer Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, taken on Somorrostro beach in Barcelona. The image depicts a female republican militia member on the Somorrostro beach of la Barceloneta neighborhood. She is kneeling, aiming her revolver. Her silhouette is shown against an out-of-focus background
Today in Labor History July 26, 1877: Federal troops killed up to 30 workers at the "Battle of the Viaduct," Chicago, during the Great Upheaval (AKA Great Train Strike). This came after the Workingmen’s Party (affiliated with the First International), organized a rally of six thousand people. At this gathering, a former Confederate Army Officer from Waco, Texas, named Albert Parsons, gave a fiery speech. The events of the Great Upheaval radicalized Parsons and his wife Lucy. In the years following it, they became some of the nation’s leading anarchist organizers. The state executed him in 1887 as one of the Haymarket Martyrs who had been fighting for the eight-hour workday. His widow, Lucy, an African American woman, went on to cofound the radical Industrial Workers of the World, in 1905, along with Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, and others.
The day after Parsons’ speech, protests erupted. Police fired into the crowd, killing three men. The next day, an armed demonstration of 5,000 workers fought the police and soldiers in the Battle of the Viaduct, when they killed as many as 30 more workers and injured over one hundred. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.” A judge later found the police guilty of preventing the workers from exercising their right to freedom of speech and assembly
The Great Upheaval was a national strike wave involving major uprisings in Martinsburg, WV, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Boston, Reading, PA, New York and many other cities. I write about it in my historical “Great Upheaval Trilogy.” My first book, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” takes place in the years immediately preceding the Great Upheaval. Book II, “Red Hot Summer in the Smoky City,” my current WIP, takes place in Pittsburgh, at the height of the Great Upheaval.
You can read my complete article about the Great Upheaval here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/31/the-great-upheaval/
You can read my biography of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/
And you can get my book ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL from these indie book sellers:
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Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!
#workingclass #LaborHistory #chicago #massacre #railroad #GeneralStrike #wildcat #strikewave #IWW #socialism #haymarket #anarchism #lucyparsons #policebrutality #policemurder #fiction #novel #historicalfiction #writer #author #books @bookstadon
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1877 Battle of the Viaduct, Chicago showing rows of soldiers firing intro crowd of protesters. By http://libcom.org/history/articles/us-rail-strikes-1877, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39083579
#QuestionOfTheDay what's a speech/line in fiction that is meaningful to you and you still think about a lot?
#writing #fiction #books #poetry #music #musicals #comics #comicbooks #movies #film #anime #manga #television #TV #videogames #CCGs #TTRPG #gaming #boardgames #scifi #fantasy
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 22 July 2026 is:
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#QuestionOfTheDay what's something (trope/mechanic/plot/story beat/character/etc) that when it shows up in a work is an absolute dealbreaker for you?
#fiction #writing #movies #television #comics #comicbooks #ttrpg #ccgs #boardgames #videogames #tv #film #anime #manga #books #music #musicals #webcomic
#QuestionOfTheDay what's a scorching hot take you have about a hobby/genre/piece of fiction/work/etc that you're into?
This has to be an actually hot take, bonus points if it's unique to you (as far as you know) or fairly weird/idiosyncratic
#sports #fiction #anime #manga #writing #coding #videogames #gaming #ttrpg #ccgs #boardgames #comics #comicbooks #webcomic #music #musicals #books #tv #television #movies #film #art
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 19 July 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 16 July 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 15 July 2026 is:
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A few thoughts about Pride 2025 and our continued struggle for rights #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #writer https://twp.ai/4hrtht
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 14 July 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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The #MastoPrompt for Monday 13 July 2026 is:
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#QuestionOfTheDay who is a fictional character whose fan interpretation you accept over the canon?
#fiction #writing #anime #manga #comics #comicbooks #superheroes #TV #television #movies #film #videogames #ttrpg #ccgs #books
Just finished reading The Wake of Saints (by AM Hamill)...
Oh my days. An absolutely amazing masterclass in powerful fantasy writing, with characters so gorgeously relatable that bythe last few chapters they almost had me crying with each twist, for different reasons each time! And cheering them on of course!
Just... Go get this book ~ it's completely wicked~~
#books #bookstodon #fantasy #bookreviews #yafantasy #fiction
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 12 July 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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I am sad this morning. Woke up to see some of my favorite #Fanfiction has been removed from the internet. Not because of pull to publish, but just because they have to now fight because LLM folks are now using LLMs to write, and publish, fanfiction. Even though this may be the case now, keep this in mind. https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #ReadingCommunity #Reading #Fiction #WritingCommunity
Short books as opposed to short stories
I was interested in this list - as a start. The only ones I have read are the McEwan, Spark and the Solzhenitsyn (in translation and a school text which I have re read and still have the school copy - whoops). Do others have recommendations for ‘short’ reads as opposed to short stories?
The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 11 July 2026 is:
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#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
Two original poems by thepoetmiranda read live #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #writer https://twp.ai/4hrYs3
While most existing work in this space focuses on identifying surface-level signatures of AI writing, we ask instead whether AI-generated stories can be distinguished from human ones without relying on stylistic signals, focusing on discourse-level narrative choices such as character agency and chronological discontinuity.
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 9 July 2026 is:
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Side A: These Dreams // Side B: Angel Dream (No. 2) / Bonus Track: Paradigm #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #writer https://twp.ai/4hrboB
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 5 July 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 4 July 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 3 July 2026 is:
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My amazing Partner's debut graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY is finished! And has been sent off to Her publisher to be released this fall!
Set in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, this is a queer romance story like no other! It's boy meets boy... meets ZOMBIE!! 🧟♂️
Check out Anna's official insta for more artwork and updates:
https://www.instagram.com/anna.sketches/
You can preorder the book right now!!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apocalypse-Baby-Heartstopper-post-apocalyptic-adventure-ebook/dp/B0GSWZSDBJ?crid=ZLKNPX170TFB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bsBVyB8oxElI8oOsqxODvOkE-ZNEZVLntO7oQ58L-l82_qsbPCYKVcDKLv4WMaI2viqw_NJgYfXDBiOKyOMSANfi6a0K-9qXjKph6QEticjc5tJLZ3g75NtTYoRA6BEQFmQy04EE3m0b_hhtiFkfbwzlfF2ovUXudqdq9GbOcBB0XkgwSr3rx24EYyQcq9IJ69ZnzgSlJe9ZAnQLu8KloA.beQ-zQbMOCoqewtOObXVe2njirVSHtet3QlCmVVMLf4&dib_tag=se&keywords=apocalypse+baby&qid=1782939550&sprefix=apocalypse+baby%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1
Bookshop:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-baby-anna-penn/56fe6b983b125c6c?ean=9780702340482&bkshp-astro=t
Waterstones.com:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/apocalypse-baby/anna-penn/anna-penn/9780702340482
#books #bookstodon #apocalypsebaby #comics #graphicnovel #horror #romance #horrormance #lgbtqia #queerfiction #zombies #dystopian #fiction #autism #annasketches #imsofrickinproudofHer
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The cover art of Apocalypse Baby by Anna Penn. Artwork depicts two guys with a baby, wading through water while silhouettes of hands grasp at them. Below it says: "Out 8th October"
This plot smells bad
A short story from the B&C universe based on a random roll from Rory's Story Cubes. #fiction
https://bugandclaw.com/articles/this-plot-smells-bad?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Bug-%26-Claw-devlogs-and-posts
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Deep in the computer's memory, a message from the crew (the real, human crew) -- left 200 years ago.
"...it soon became apparently that there *was no* Earth 2.0. There never was one. It was clear, we would die here on the ship. The decision was made to upload our consciousness into the robot clones we'd made of ourselves, to try to keep humanity's memory alive. Because of the torture of an eternity on this ship, every four weeks, a complete memory reset was programmed into the system; you've been living the same month of your life since you were created, and would continue to for the next 100, 200, 500, 1000 years--as long as the ship's power sources held out. The human crew completed this task and jettisoned themselves into space.... if you're reading this, something went wrong, and somehow you discovered our shame and what we really did..."
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 29 June 2026 is:
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I'm not generally a fan of short stories but this I like 😂
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Post by Molly Hodgdon
His kiss was slow, but firm and unyielding like an old man backing his Lincoln Town Car over a handicapped parking sign.
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 26 June 2026 is:
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I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁
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Post by trish
fuck ur zodiac sign, what book series did u hyperfixate on when u were growing up because u projected an escape fantasy into that world as an alternative to ur suburban life
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 22 June 2026 is:
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An original poem by thepoetmiranda #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #writer https://twp.ai/4hquiv
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 18 June 2026 is:
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As someone who has spent my entire adult life being mildly condescended to for enjoying genre fiction, I have to admit to a mean-spirited Schadenfreude over the controversy with the Commonwealth Foundation short story awardees possibly using AI.
See, literary fiction snobs — it’s ALSO a genre with expected elements, structures, character types and rules, and its conventions can be mimicked by AI just as easily as the “predictable trash” you sneer at.
(The foundation is standing by the authors. I will say only that the first story accused (several more have been accused since) made my eyes bleed from the sheer barrage of superficially profound metaphors. If that’s prize-winning, no wonder it’s not my favourite genre.)
I never knew reading could trick me into loving myself, what can't it do! 😂
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Post: Its unreal how all of my favorite characters have exactly the same traits and hobbies and diagnoses as me.
Reply: oh, have you been tricked into loving yourself?
Reply: oh my fucking god is that what just happened
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 12 June 2026 is:
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The onion went translucent before she noticed she'd been standing there long enough. Fifty-something, finally learning to turn the flame down before the smoke. A new short story about cooking dinner alone, grieving two friends still loved, and the rage that was always aimed inward.
https://twp.ai/9OXeAF
#ShortStory #LiteraryFiction #AmReading #Grief #SelfForgiveness #QueerLit #Fiction #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Storytelling
"A fist held that long stops being a choice and becomes a shape." A hand that's always a fist can't cup water. Can't take another hand. This story sits in the kitchen with a woman who finally sees the swing coming — from inside her own arm.
https://twp.ai/9OXeAM
#LiteraryFiction #ShortFiction #Grief #Healing #QueerWriters #AmReading #SelfForgiveness #Fiction #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon
The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 10 June 2026 is:
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Do what you can and jump straight to acceptance 😁
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#TomGauld
#ReadingGoal
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Comic with a couple reading in bed.
Caption: THE FIVE STAGES OF GRIEVING FOR AN OVERAMBITIOUS READING RESOLUTION
DENIAL: No, finishin a book every 2,7 days is not absurd!
ANGER: Why are all these books so long!!
BARGAINING: If you read a book and tell me about it, that counts, right?
DEPRESSION: All joy has fled, yet my failure persists!
ACCEPTANCE: Being at one with the art is all that matters. And next year I'm going to be at one with so much more art!
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 9 June 2026 is:
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The screen at the front of the classroom dimmed as the lights came back on, filling the room with a soft white light. Several students squinted as they refocused on the figure stepping in front of display.
“This period in time,” the professor continued, “is referred to as the ‘AI Pause on Software Development’. It’s when most of the companies responsible for developing the software that the entire world practically ran on, fired their developers and replaced them with AI.” The professor paused, looking over his glasses to scan the back of the class. “And so, during this period, humanity went through a time where software got progressively worse, with increasing instability and introduced errors. These results seem obvious to us now, but back then, people were, on the whole, not very bright.”
The #MastoPrompt for Monday 8 June 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 7 June 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
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Thank you again to the all the great people like this who came out today (despite the rain!) to the Barnes & Noble Memorial location in #Houston #Texas today to get a signed copy of #EugenesisInception - I enjoyed meeting you all!
#GeneticEngineering speculative #fiction #genetics
Today in Labor History June 6, 1894: Colorado’s governor sent in the state militia to support the Cripple Creek miners' strike, the only time in history that a state militia was used to help a workers’ struggle, rather than to suppress it. The mine owners were demanding a 10-hour day without an increase in pay. In response, the miners went on strike. There was considerable violence from both sides during the strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners (WFM). On March 16, some miners ambushed, shot and beat some sheriff’s deputies. The judge, a WFM member, let the miners off, but charged the deputies with carrying concealed weapons. Furious, the Sheriff arrested 20 union leaders. Meanwhile, the mine owners conspired to bring in hundreds of scabs and deputized vigilantes. When the new deputies marched on the strikers’ camp, the miners blew up several mine structures, forcing the deputies to flee. The mine owners hired hundreds more vigilantes for their army. When he heard about the size of the miner owners’ force, the governor declared the deputies illegal and sent in state troops to defend the miners.
On June 5, the day before the state troops arrived, the mine owners’ army began cutting telegraph lines and arresting and beating reporters and hundreds of town residents, including many who weren’t miners. When the state troops arrived, there were already gun battles going on between the vigilante army and the miners. However, the state troops gained control of the town relatively quickly and the mine owners disbanded their army and sent them home. 300 miners were arrested, but only four were convicted. And the populist governor pardoned them all. The WFM won, keeping the 8-hour day and their $3/day wages. And, they were so popular because of their victory, that they easily organized most of the other industries in the region (e.g., waitresses, laundry workers, bartenders, newsboys) into 54 new locals.
The Cripple Creek strike was a prelude for the Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), led by future IWW cofounded Big Bill Haywood, and the Colorado Coalfield War (1913-1914), which historian Thomas G. Andrews called the “deadliest strike in the history of the United States” and which included the Ludlow Massacre. Hundreds were killed in the Coalfield War. During the Labar Wars of 1903-1904, James McParland ran the Pinkerton agency in Denver. He had served as an agent provocateur in the Pennsylvania miners’ union in the 1870s. The state convicted and executed 20 innocent Irish coal miners because of his testimony. (I have depicted that story in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.”) Like he did in Pennsylvania, McParlan tried to sabotage the WFM by placing spies and agents provocateur within the union.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #colorado #union #strike #solidarity #militia #sabotage #police #policebrutality #EightHourDay #wfm #vigilantes #cripplecreek #pinkertons #fiction #historicalfiction #books #novel #author @bookstadon
You can read more about the Ludlow Massacre here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/
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Poster of the U.S. flag, designed by Big Bill Haywood during the Colorado Labor Wars of 1903-1904. The poster has been described as "perhaps the most controversial broadside in American history."
The poster's title reads: Is Colorado in America?
In the stripes of the flag are written the following phrases:
Martial law declared in Colorado!
Habeas Corpus suspended in Colorado!
Free press throttled in Colorado!
Bull-pens for union men in Colorado!
Free speech denied in Colorado!
Soldiers defy courts in Colorado!
Wholesale arrests without warrant in Colorado!
Union men exiled from homes and families in Colorado!
Constitutional right to bear arms questioned in Colorado!
Corporations corrupt and control administration in Colorado!
Right of fair, impartial and speedy trial abolished in Colorado!
Citizens alliance resorts to mob law and violence in Colorado!
Militia hired to corporations to break the strike in Colorado!
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 5 June 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 3 June 2026 is:
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Today in Labor History June 2, 1780: The Gordon Riots began on this date in England and lasted through June 9. The riots began as a pogrom against Catholics. However, it grew into a mass worker insurrection that included ex-slaves, impressed sailors and debtors, English, Irish, Italians, Germans and Jews. The insurrectionists liberated two thousand prisoners and destroyed every major prison in London, including Newgate, Fleet and The Clink. They wrote on the prison walls, “Freed by the Authority of His Majesty, King Mob." Rioters also destroyed the homes members of the ruling elite, as well as toll houses and the Bank of England. The rich fled the city in terror. Many were robbed and beaten along the way. It was the most destructive protest in the history of London. The military was called in. They slaughtered up to 700 workers. The political context for the insurrection included low wages and inflation due to England’s wars with the U.S., Spain and France, as well as the desire for universal suffrage.
At the time of the Gordon Riots, England was still battling American revolutionaries in North America, and was still in conflict with France and Spain, and would soon be in conflict with the Dutch. They had been in secret negotiations with Spain to try and get them to end support for the United States. But the Spanish pulled back in response to the anti-Catholic nature of the riots, and over concerns that the riots would ultimately bring down the British government. At the time, Britain had no official police force, which parliament believed was a foreign and absolutist entity. The riots changed that, with several now strongly advocating for a police force modeled after the French. Radical journalist and MP John Wilkes lost a great deal of popular support for leading a violent citizens militia against the rioters.
Charles Dickens' novel “Barnaby Rudge” (1841) is set during Gordon Riots. And the film “The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle” has a scene from the Gordon Riots, with the Sex Pistols being hung in effigy. In the late 1960s, there was a Situationist group in the UK that called themselves “King Mob,” which had connections to the activist groups Black Mask and Against Up the Wall Motherfuckers (AKA the Motherfuckers) dadaist/Situationist groups based in New York city. Motherfuckers got their name from an Amiri Baraka poem. Abbie Hoffman referred to them as “the middle-class nightmare.” In 1967, they Motherfuckers forced their way into the Pentagon and flung blood, eggs and stones at US Secretary of State Dean Rusk. In January 1968, they dumped uncollected refuse from the Lower East Side into the fountain at Lincoln Center. They also forced Bill Graham to provide free concert nights at the Fillmore East. At an MC5 show at the Fillmore East, the broke Graham’s nose, which got the MC5 banned from the venue. And in 1969, they cut the fences at Woodstock, allowing thousands to get in for free.
You read more about the British King Mob group here: https://situationnisteblog.com/2016/04/18/king-mob-1-6-1968-70/
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Painting of the Gordon Riots, with mobs storming Newgate Prison to release its prisoners. Heading reads:
Freed On Orders of King Mob
Liberation of Newgate Prison
#Houston metro area friends (and fans of speculative #fiction thrillers): I’ll see you this Saturday (6/6) at the Barnes & Noble *Memorial* location. I’ll be there from 1pm signing copies of #EugenesisInception . #Texas
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062211921-0
The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 2 June 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Monday 1 June 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 31 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 30 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 29 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 28 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 27 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 26 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Monday 25 May 2026 is:
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The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 23 May 2026 is:
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I have updated my reading lists 🥳 https://reading.sophieschoice.net/index.html. See what I read and what I am planning to read!
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The #MastoPrompt for Friday 22 May 2026 is:
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Reading is an act of rebellion whether it's legal or not 😁
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Drawn image of a woman carrying a stack of books with '1984' falling of the top.
Caption: READ! While it is still legal.
The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 21 May 2026 is:
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What survives the morning: empire's pause, political reckoning, and the infrastructure draining our future. Queer analysis meets survival tactics from The Gathering. #trans #queer #lgbtqia #fiction #nonfiction #author #writing https://twp.ai/4hqTwZ
My Partner's graphic novel APOCALYPSE BABY just had its official press release which means
I'M ALLOWED TO GUSH ABOUT IT
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Including this one!
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Today in Labor History May 18, 1781: Tupac Amaru II was drawn and quartered in Plaza Mayor del Cuzco, Peru. Tupac II had led a large indigenous uprising against the Spanish conquistadors. As a result of his heroic efforts, he became an inspiration to others in the fight for indigenous rights and against colonialism. The uprising began because of “reforms” by the colonial administration that increased taxes and labor demands on both indigenous and creole populations. However, there was also an ongoing desire to overthrow European rule and restore the pre-conquest Incan empire. And though this would merely replace one feudal power with another, there were also Jacobin and proto-communist elements to the rebellion. Most of the Tupamarista soldiers were poor peasants, artisans and women who saw the uprising as an opportunity to create an egalitarian society, without the cast and class divisions of either the Spanish or Incan feudal systems.
The uprising began with the execution of Spanish colonial Governor Antonio de Arriaga by his own slave, Antonio Oblitas. Tupac Amaru II then made a proclamation claiming to be fighting against the abuses of Spain and for the peace and well-being of Indians, mestizos, mambos, native-born whites and blacks. They then proceeded to march toward Cuzco, killing Spaniards and looting their properties. Everywhere they went, they overthrew the Spanish authority. Tupac’s wife, Michaela Bastidas commanded a battalion of insurgents. Many claimed she was more daring and a superior strategist than her husband.
However, despite their strength and courage, the rebels failed to take Cuzco. The Spaniards brought in reinforcements from Lima. Many creoles abandoned the Inca army and joined the Spanish, fearing for their own safety after seeing the wanton slaughter of Spanish civilians. In the end, Tupac was betrayed by two of his officers and handed over to the Spanish. However, before they killed him, the Spanish forced him to watch them execute his wife, eldest son, uncle, brother-in-law, and several of his captains. They cut out both his wife’s and son’s tongue before hanging them.
As a result of Tupac’s leadership and success against the Spanish, he became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and in the indigenous rights movement. The Tupamaros revolutionary movement in Uruguay (1960s-1970s) took their name from him. As did the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary guerrilla group, in Peru, and the Venezuelan Marxist political party Tupamaro. American rapper, Tupac Amaru Shakur, was also named after him. Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, wrote a poem called “Tupac Amaru (1781).” And Clive Cussler’s book, “Inca Gold,” has a villain who claims to be descended from the revolutionary leader.
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Tupac Amaru II standing tall, in a brown tunic, with white knee socks, and a golden medallion around his neck. By Unknown author - http://peru.feeder.ww7.pe/index.php?cal_date=2009-07-29, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9105047
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